Question

What initiated the wife’s exile in "The Wife’s Lament"?

Answer 1

In "The Wife's Lament" a plot by her husband's kinsmen initiated the wife's exile.

Explanation:

"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem found in the Exeter Book (the 10th-century anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry). It consists of 53 lines, and is and generally treated as an elegy or woman's song, which shows a woman's grief about a lost of absent lover, although there are numerous different interpretations and disagreements regarding the genre and theme.

If we take a look at the poem, we can see that the cause of the wife's exile are her husband's kinsmen:

They insinuated, the kinsmen of that man,

by secret thought, to separate us two

so that we two, widest apart in the worldly realm,

should live most hatefully—and it harrowed me.

My lord ordered me to take this grove

for a home — very few dear to me

in this land, almost no loyal friends.

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